Category: Event
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St. Matthews Church Brings Witness Stones Project to Wilton, Sharing Stories of CT’s Enslaved People
It is not wrong to go back for that which you have forgotten. – Akan proverb Through a collaboration of local faith communities, area youth in grades 6-9 will have the opportunity to explore and chronicle the history of slavery in Connecticut. In a series of workshops, participants will research historical documents and create a…
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West Hartford to Celebrate Juneteenth on Sunday
By Fox61 on June 19, 2022 WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — West Hartford will be hosting its third annual Juneteenth CommUNITY Celebration on Sunday, June 19 at Blue Back Square. At 12:30 p.m., at Blue Back Square, the Witness Stones Project will dedicate 14 new Witness Stones. This project seeks to restore the history and honor the…
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Juneteenth Commemoration to Feature Jazz Quartet, Poets at Florence Griswold in Old Lyme
By Emilia Otte in the Connecticut Examiner on June 17, 2022 OLD LYME — The town will be ushering in Juneteenth with a mixture of jazz and poetry led by a well-known jazz quartet and four Connecticut poets who will be reading verses in commemoration of slaves who lived in Old Lyme. The event is…
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WSP Affiliate Historic Deerfield to Celebrate Juneteenth Through Song
By Chris Larabee in the Greenfield Recorder on June 16, 2022 DEERFIELD — Historic Deerfield is inviting residents to celebrate Juneteenth and learn about local ties to abolition through song on Sunday. The museum is hosting “Songs of Abolition: A Juneteenth Concert Celebration at Historic Deerfield” to commemorate Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when the…
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Juneteenth Witness Stones Celebration at the Florence Griswold Museum Features Jazz Quartet & Poets
OLD LYME – The Witness Stones Poets will join the Nat Reeves Quartet in a Juneteenth celebration of jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme St. in Old Lyme, Connecticut, on Saturday afternoon, June 18, at 2 p.m. The acclaimed Connecticut poets – Marilyn Nelson, Kate Rushin, Rhonda Ward and Antoinette…
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Juneteenth Celebration of Jazz & Poetry in Old Lyme, June 18
In the Middletown Press on June 14, 2022 OLD LYME – The Witness Stones Poets will join the Nat Reeves Quartet in a Juneteenth celebration of jazz and poetry on the lawn of the Florence Griswold Museum 2 p.m., June 18, 96 Lyme St. The poems commemorate 14 African-descended persons once enslaved in Old Lyme, according to…
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Lives Of Enslaved Couple Honored on Juneteenth At Pardee-Morris House
Ellyn Santiago for Patch.com on June 6, 2022 NEW HAVEN, CT —Stepna Primus, a “husband and farmer,” was enslaved by Amos Morris, Issac Forbes, and Enos Heminway, at the Morris house in New Haven. In 1796, Primus was emancipated. Also enslaved at the Morris House was his wife, Pink, “mother, wife and landowner,” who…
